Download e-book for iPad: A Companion to Persius and Juvenal (Blackwell Companions to by Susanna Braund,Josiah Osgood

A spouse to Persius and Juvenal breaks new floor in its in-depth specialise in either authors as "satiric successors"; designated person contributions recommend unique views on their paintings, and supply an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives.

Provides unique and up to date tips at the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal

Offers tremendous dialogue of the reception of either authors, reflecting probably the most leading edge paintings being performed in modern Classics

Contains an intensive exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives

This booklet offers a quick and available advent to Greek tragedy for college kids and normal readers alike. even if readers are learning Greek tradition, appearing a Greek tragedy, or just attracted to interpreting a Greek play, this e-book can help them to appreciate and revel in this demanding and lucrative style.

The Classical culture: paintings, Literature, suggestion offers an authoritative, coherent and wide-ranging advisor to the afterlife of Greco-Roman antiquity in later Western cultures and a ground-breaking reinterpretation of huge elements of Western tradition as a complete from a classical standpoint. contains a precise mix of chronological diversity, cultural scope, coherent argument, and unified research Written in a full of life, attractive, and chic demeanour offers an leading edge assessment of the afterlife of antiquity Crosses disciplinary barriers to make new experience of a wealthy number of fabric, infrequently introduced jointly totally illustrated with a mixture of colour and black & white photos

Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the traditional world's most well-liked dramatist and the main smooth, possibly postmodern, of Greek tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have usually became their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an extremely wealthy and sundry translation historical past. It has additionally been subjected to a number of models of feedback and interpretation through the years, all mirrored in, influencing, and prompted by means of translation.